Russian airplanes continue to make emergency landings with alarming frequency. Today a flight departing from Moscow with radioactive substances weighing 19 kilograms on board made an emergency landing at Vnukovo airport almost immediately after takeoff, Shot writes. On board the plane, in addition to the dangerous cargo, there were 104 passengers. The plane sent a distress signal about the malfunction of the landing gear.
Also this morning it became known that the plane An-24, 1960 year of manufacture, flew back to the airport of takeoff because of the breakdown of speed indicators.
This month alone, at least fourteen cases of Russian airplanes breaking down during flights have been reported:
- December 10 - Superjet SSJ-100 returned to the airport due to an inability to retract the landing gear.
- On December 8, an Airbus A319-111 made an emergency landing due to cabin depressurization.
- In the morning of the same day Boeing 737 of S7 company returned to the airport due to engine failure.
- On December 7, the engine of a cargo Tu-204 caught fire.
- On December 6, an Aeroflot Boeing 777 caught fire due to a short circuit.
- On December 5, an An-12's rudder control system failed, also a Moscow-Kazan flight made an emergency landing due to a stabilization system control failure.
- On December 2, Aeroflot's Airbus A321 crash-landed in Sheremetyevo due to a left engine failure. On the same day, a Superjet 100 landed in Tyumen for technical reasons.
- On December 1, three flights made emergency landings at once. Aeroflot's Airbus A321 landed at Pulkovo due to a problem with the air conditioning system. Aeroflot's Boeing 737 made an emergency landing in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk due to a drop in landing gear strut pressure. In Novosibirsk, the autopilot and flaps of the IrAero flight failed.
More than 180 cases of in-flight malfunctions have been recorded since the beginning of the year, compared to 60 such incidents in 2022, Newsweek calculated.
